HR Business Partner

We have an incredible opportunity for a HR Business Partner to join our Pensions & Savings HR Partnering team. 

Job Type:  Fixed Term Contract 12 Months

Location: This role could be based in Birmingham, Telford or Edinburgh offices with time spent working in the office and at home.  

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Closing Date: 11/08/2026

Salary and benefits: £50,000 - £75,000 DOE plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more 

Who are we?

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

The role  

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Pensions & Savings People Team.   You will work as a strategic business partner for our Customer, Digital and Information areas enabling delivery of the people agenda to: 

• Lead Organisation Design and implementation, supporting the management of change through engagement activity, sharing intended benefits and outcomes, strong stakeholder management and effective communication.  
• Provide expert consultancy, at a multi-disciplinary or deep specialist level, to support and enable successful delivery of strategic business plans.  
• Work alongside the centre of excellence teams to support and deliver the Talent, Learning, Reward, Culture, Diversity and Inclusion plans for the function.  
• Use technical knowledge, skills and experience to influence stakeholders and leadership teams in line with the people strategy, governing policies, legislation and appropriate regulation.  
• Use data, metrics and other information to develop insight to identify opportunities for improvement and develop proposals that bring about positive change, reinforcing and underpinning business objectives.  
• Build and maintain relationships with managers up to and including executive level and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure advice and recommendations are relevant, informed, sustainable and commercially viable.  

What are we looking for?  

• Proven HR experience of business partnering, organisation design or strategic delivery at senior management level in a financial services environment.  
• Lateral thinker, capable of delivering innovative and pragmatic solutions at pace and through others where required.  
• Commercial acumen and an understanding of the business, with the ability to work strategically and tactically across the whole employee lifecycle, always demonstrating added value.  
• An autonomous and independent operator, with the ability to balance leading organisational design and delivery of large scale people impacts, alongside BAU activities and build business as well as HR knowledge, with desire to learn and grow in role
• Excellent communication skills and proven experience of influencing, coaching and challenging leader behaviour to drive culture change and the achievement of business and people outcomes aligned to the business vision and priorities. 

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

We’re reviewing applications as they come in and may close this role before the closing date, so apply early to avoid missing out.

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